Rate My Professor Kathy Patrick

Kathy Patrick is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Fine Art in the School of Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the University of Natal (1992), a Higher Diploma in Education from the University of Natal (1993), a Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Education from the University of Natal (1997), and a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2014). Her research interests include visual communication, visual arts curricula in higher education, multimodal literacies, illustration, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her teaching interests encompass drawing, painting and printmaking, visual communication, and research methodology.

Patrick has contributed to the field through selected publications such as the 2022 article “Headloading: Exploring Creative Transmediation as a Methodological Direction in Visual Art Research” in de arte (co-authored with T.V. Morgan), the 2021 article “Between a Formalist Rock and a Contextually Hard Place: The Gaps and Tensions Challenging Visual Arts Curricula in South African Higher Education” in Critical Arts, and earlier works on visual literacy and adult education materials. She has supervised numerous honours, master’s, and doctoral students on topics in visual arts and related areas. From 1995 to 2013, she was involved in the Learn with Echo project, which produced bilingual educational materials for adult new readers. Her professional email address is publicly listed on the university profile.